Excreta Matters: Newsletter Archives

November, 2013
River in, sewage out is the only thing city planners and engineers know about water supply and waste water disposal in South Asia.

October, 2013Follies in a place of abundance
A tradition is a belief or behaviour within a society of significant meaning with origins in the past.

August, 2013Rivers are sewers
Water binds South Asia together.

July 2013Bill versus DraftBut the Uttarakhand government looks singularly inept given its leaden-footed response to the floods

June 2013Bill versus DraftThree months after a new version of the National Water

May 2013Remedies start in small doses
Last month, I suggested drastic surgery – open up the Yamuna River’s floodplains into one gigantic wetland, as in Kolkata, to improve water quality.

April 2013A Yamuna Wetland, anyone?
A river is the sum of many parts, so is the Yamuna. It’s about 1350 km long, flowing through Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Delhi and forms border with Himachal Pradesh.

February 2013Anil Agarwal Dialogue: Excreta Does Matter:
Underlining the importance of improving our urban water supply and sewage management, we are holding the Second Anil Agarwal Dialogue: Excreta Does Matters in New Delhi on the 4th and 5th of March.

January 2013
Water Policy is a giant step to nowhere
The National Water Policy 2012 cleared by the National Water Resources Council (NWRC) a few days ago, is a mixed bag.

November 2012Water & Pollutants
That polluted water can raise a stink wafted into public memory about a century-and-a-half ago, when the Thames River in London made its smelly presence felt to that country’s august Houses of Parliament.

December. 2012Holy filth
Three festivals have come and gone, and our rivers are the filthier for them. Ganesh Chaturthi, Durga Puja and Chath Puja left their mark yet again on the already filthy waterways in the shape of plastic bags, broken idols and oil from lamps.